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Two masked gunmen stormed into a BP gas station Tuesday morning and fired several gunshots in a robbery attempt, but left without any money as the clerk took cover in the bulletproof glass booth surrounding the cash register. The violent incident unfolded at about 5:18 a.m. in the BP station at 2091 W. Oakland Park Boulevard. Nobody was hurt. Dramatic surveillance video released by the Broward Sheriff's Office shows the pair running across the parking lot, into the store, and up to the clerk's glass booth. With a gun pointed at him, the clerk dives to the floor. One suspect, running around the outside of the booth, fires shots at the bullet-proof door. In a bid to stay out the...

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